MASTER Risk Model - Learning Resources - Abilities

Vision & Goal Setting

Ask a peer founder: “What do you think my goals are right now?”—check if your venture vision is clear and aligned.

Share your venture vision in a 1:1 and ask how the other person sees themselves contributing to it.

Invite a mentor to review your goals—do they see ambition, focus, and feasibility in your plan?

Ask your team to state the shared vision in one sentence—does it align with what you see?

Share your personal venture vision with a peer—ask what’s inspiring, unclear, or missing.

Ask someone to review one of your goals and suggest how it could be clearer or more actionable.

Strategic Thinking

Ask a mentor: “What blind spots do you see in how I’m approaching strategy for my start-up?”

Share a strategic choice with a peer—invite them to challenge your assumptions or logic.

Ask a peer founder what long-term risks or opportunities they see in your current direction.

Invite a cross-functional peer to review your plan—what dependencies or links are you missing?

After a meeting, ask: “Was I thinking too narrowly, or did I zoom out enough?”

Share your reasoning on a recent decision—ask for feedback on whether you considered long-term effects.

Innovation Management

Ask a fellow founder which of your ideas they thought had strong potential—what stopped you from pursuing it?

Share your latest concept and ask a peer to test its flaws—embrace constructive friction.

Invite your small team to rate which part of your process most needs rethinking—start there together.

Ask a potential customer: “What feature or idea do you wish someone would finally build?”

Discuss with a founder in another industry how they test ideas—what can you learn or adapt?

Ask your team: “What’s one idea we dropped too quickly?”—explore if it’s worth testing again.

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